These chaps were mapping Greenland at the time.
Watkins Last Expedition
F. Spencer Chapman
Penguin Books
1938 Edition
Page 241
"May 21st. Lay up.
What a spot! Looks worse than every now, but the wind has dropped. It was my birthday the other day so I have brought all the wherewithal to make a cake. I took a cupful of flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder and then rubbed a lump of butter into it, added a pinch of salt and a large handful of raisins, mixed it all up into a paste and then put into a butter tin which I stood on three screws inside one of our cooking pots. With the lid on this makes a grand oven and the cake was quite up to standard after an hour and a halfs baking over the Primus, although John found a trouser button in his half, not to mention the usual plague of hairs from the reindeer skins."
I love reads like these.
Watkins Last Expedition
F. Spencer Chapman
Penguin Books
1938 Edition
Page 241
"May 21st. Lay up.
What a spot! Looks worse than every now, but the wind has dropped. It was my birthday the other day so I have brought all the wherewithal to make a cake. I took a cupful of flour and a teaspoonful of baking powder and then rubbed a lump of butter into it, added a pinch of salt and a large handful of raisins, mixed it all up into a paste and then put into a butter tin which I stood on three screws inside one of our cooking pots. With the lid on this makes a grand oven and the cake was quite up to standard after an hour and a halfs baking over the Primus, although John found a trouser button in his half, not to mention the usual plague of hairs from the reindeer skins."
I love reads like these.
